{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/generation.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/generation.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre, present active infinitive of generō (“to beget, generate”). Compare generate." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. \n1832, Charles Lyell, chapter XIII, in Principles of Geology , volume II, London: John Murray, page 210:The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations" }, { "mean": "The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. \n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.\n1631, Francis , “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.\n1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. . Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, Together with The Garden of Cyrus, , London: Hen Brome , →OCLC; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, →OCLC, page 192:According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah." }, { "mean": "(now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. \nc. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?" }, { "mean": "A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. \nThis is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1\nYe shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3\nAll generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring." }, { "mean": "The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time. \n2008, Edgar Thorpe, Objective English:Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s." }, { "mean": "A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. \n2009, Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers:\nThe first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success." }, { "mean": "(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.\nthe generation of a line or curve" }, { "mean": "A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.\nGeneration X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties." }, { "mean": "A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.\nPeople sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation." }, { "mean": "(television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.\n2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book\nWith one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master \n2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin, Dictionary of Video and Television Technology (page 131)\nEach generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "generation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. 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